2001journey

100+ Days Traveling draft of a new version of 77 trip Henry I'll be out right away.   Got to make sure all my lights are turned off and I need to unplugged things I don't want plugged in for the next 3 months. Henry and Susan had just pulled up in front of my condo in Boynton Beach. I ran back inside raced upstairs to check the bathroom and the two bedrooms to unplug all the electrical devices: TVs, clocks, and radios.   Then I went downstairs taking two steps at a time and zipped around to the kitchen and dining room to double check if I had left anything still plugged in.   The refrigerator I cleared out yesterday afternoon and gave the perishable food to Tom and Kathy next door. After pulling the curtains in the dining area and the living room I grabbed my large backpack and my brown nylon shoulder bag filled with 100 rolls 35 mm color slide film and 50 audiotapes.   My plan was to capture as much as I could as I traveled around Europe for...

Day 74-Thanks for tagging along Expand Messages RobertAlan Black Sep 6, 2001 Day 74--Thanks for tagging along Thanks to all of you for tagging along. Thanks for all the wonderful messages and notes that so many of you sent during the 73 days. It was like having you each with me as traveling companions. By the way Jonathon...my bags made the entire trip. Not sure about all those packages I mailed. That I may never know because I didn't keep accurate records when I sent them. Day 73...walk to Eiffel Tower one last time to watch the sunrise on it To walk across the Seine and view the vastness of Paris one more morning. Truly a beautiful and wonderful experience again. Off to buy morning French pastries for breakfast and check out of my hotel, my last hotel this trip. Just walking from my hotel on Saint Dominique the 4 or 5 blocks to the base Eiffel Tower I probably gained a few pounds from the fantastic smells of the freshly baked or ba...

Paris Day One Came from London via the Eurostar under the Channel 30 minutes of blackness until we reached the other side and were in France Once I got to Paris it was traveler skills time again ATM machine and then Metro 3-day pass and off to my hotel Here is how the keyboard I am using looks Makes it hard to type azertyuiop qsdfghjklm wxcvbn,;:! I did not know that the French used a different keyboard: My hotel is a 5 ,minute walk from the Eiffel Tower Once I changed clothes off to climb to the second level and then elevator to the top Fantastic view from up there can't find the period on this keyboard Then I walked along the edge of the Seine at the water's edge from the Eiffel Tower to Notre Dame Stood in a queue to go up the tower and decided I would try another time Off by the metro to the Pompeidou Center---gigantic gallery of modern art and a library I missed my train to Madrid because I became mezmorized by the building in 1977 ...

On the Move in London To Walk, or not to Walk Ay there's the point To sleep, to English breakfast at my hotel, is that all?" To walk, bus, tube, London BA EYE ride, ay happily there I went today For in the tour of London,  where I wander and borne before an everlasting tour guide From whence no underground passenger ever returned The undiscovered city,  at where I visit The happy smile  and the lazy be damned For thjs, the joy-filled day  I had as follows... Left my hotel at 6:30 to walk until 7:00 when they start serving breakfast. After I got a little ways from the hotel near the edge of Hyde Park, largest open area in the entire Metro London area I decided breakfast wasn't necessary until later. Just a couple exercise walkers and joggers and one bicycler and me wandered through Hyde Park this morning. I wandered through the park to I reached the Serpentine Lake and routed around it and its ducks, geese and swans to travel towar...

5000 years of Spiritualness: Stonehenge to Salisbury Cathedral That is what made up my day yesterday and all morning  today. I left Stratford on an English train system journey. My first train to Reading arrived over 30 minutes late. I grabbed my two bags and ran down stairs along the tunnel to the next platform and back up another set of stairs to get to about 6 feet from the train and it started moving with the doors closed. Two or three seconds do make a difference. Another late train came along about 20 minutes later.  I arrived in Salisbury to be picked up by a new Cyberspace Creativity friend, John Thomas, a retired teacher who lives in Salisbury.  We met through a creativity chat group about a year ago and shared back and forth often.  When I began planning my trip I told John about my plans to return to Stonehenge once again.  This time I would spend more time in Salisbury. John was waiting for me at the train station. He had recommended...

William & Anne's Day Guest Stratford on Avon by bicycle, tour bus and foot. Yesterday I arrived in Stratford from London by train. As we passengers were getting up I asked the fellow across from me if he was taking a cartooning class or was a cartoonist. Turned out he is an extablished editorial cartoonist and was going to Stratford to give a cartooning workshop for children in a tent in front of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. We talked briefly. I shared the cartoons I have done during the trip and then asked to buy a copy of one of his books. Coincidentally he happened to have a copy or two for sale with him. Ha ha. Off with my bags to find a B&B. My first time in 1977 I found one quickly.  Both times  Merry I came in 1978 we found B&Bs quickly within a couple blocks of the train station. I walked by where my previous ones had been back then and are gone now. I turned right down a lane of continuous row houses looking for a B&B hangin...